Sentences with phrase «of biblical commentary»

This attitude toward the relation between history and myth is developed by Buber in his books of biblical commentary, Königtum Gottes, Moses, and The Prophetic Faith, and it is this which constitutes one of the most significant contributions of these remarkable works.

R.R. Reno, general editor of the Brazos Theological Commentary, writes: «This series of biblical commentaries was born out of the conviction that dogma clarifies rather than obscures.

This development has made financially feasible the publication of excellent study aids in the form of biblical commentaries, such as Reginald Fuller's Preaching the New Lectionary, Gerard Sloyan's Commentary on the New Lectionary, and Fortress Press's Proclamation series of 26 paperback volumes.

J. N. Darby, the founder of the Plymouth Brethren, tried to eliminate all vestiges of the Catholic tradition, including ministerial orders and the use of biblical commentaries, which he considered unhelpful intermediaries between the Scriptures and the individual soul.

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In the fifth century, St. Jerome, who was living in Palestine, carried on a running debate with Jews in his biblical commentaries on the interpretation of the prophecies of return and restoration.

Of all the commentaries which have appeared since the birth of biblical criticism, this is the weirdesOf all the commentaries which have appeared since the birth of biblical criticism, this is the weirdesof biblical criticism, this is the weirdest.

Other projects include an exploration of motherhood in messianic genealogies in «Mother Knows Best: Messianic Surrogacy and Sexploitation in Ruth» in Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommie Dearest: Biblical Mothers and their Children (Brill), and a commentary on Ruth and article on «Responsible Christian exegesis of the Hebrew Scriptures» in the African diasporic biblical commentary The Africana Bible (FoBiblical Mothers and their Children (Brill), and a commentary on Ruth and article on «Responsible Christian exegesis of the Hebrew Scriptures» in the African diasporic biblical commentary The Africana Bible (Fobiblical commentary The Africana Bible (Fortress).

My quest for biblical womanhood led me to these stories late at night, long after Dan had gone to sleep, and I conducted my nightly research by his side in bed, stacks of Bibles and commentaries and legal pads threatening to swallow him should he roll over.

Discovering Biblical Equality: Complemenatrity Without Hierarchy, edited by Ronald W. Pierce and Rebecca Merrill Groothuis; Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire by Brian J. Walsh and Sylvia C. Keesmaat; The Womens» Bible Commentary, Expanded Edition, edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ring; The Cultural Context of Ephesians 5:18 - 6:9 by Gordon D. Fee

1 Samuel: Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible by Francesca Aran Murphy Brazos, 336 pages, $ 34.99 He has never seen another field of study quite like it, says a political philosopher who follows biblical scholarship.

There are now many aids for historical study of the Bible available, and there is probably very little responsible biblical scholarship in commentaries and the like that does not pay some attention to the matter of historical context.

The presence of such policy - oriented commentary raises an interesting question: How do we get from highly general biblical principles to specific policies and practices?

Those who have had basic courses in the biblical languages and are willing to devote 20 minutes a day to such language study should gain enough language ability to base their sermon text study on the original text, and they should have enough linguistic skill to use the best of the great philological commentaries, which often cite words from the original languages.

as well as «The Disappearance of God», «The Hidden Book in the Bible», «Commentary on the Torah», «The Bible with Sources Revealed», and «The Exile and Biblical Narrative.»

Since such a large part of most services is built around the lectionary, the finest biblical scholarship can have a great impact on the totality of the service through new commentaries and other resources.

I have ventured into writing commentaries on the biblical books in Malayalam, approaching the Bible in two senses of the word, layman: namely, inadequate scientific understanding of the text but primarily concerned with response to life - situations.

It is probable that during the exile, he wrote his treatise Ad Fortunatum, a collection of Biblical passages with commentary on martyrdom.

Since Harold Lindsell assumed the position of editor late in the sixties, Christianity Today has moved away from the mere elucidation of socially related Biblical principles, as Henry thought was right, to an ongoing commitment to social critique and specific commentary on a wide range of social and political issues.

(The relationship between word and time from the biblical point of view has been rigorously demonstrated in Beauchamp's commentary on Genesis 1, Création et séparation.

Barr then analyzes such classics of postfundamentalist biblical interpretation as The New Bible Commentary and The New Bible Dictionary (published in Britain by Inter-Varsity and in the US.

The following fascinating information is based off the writings of world - renown biblical scholar (and my amazing New Testament professor this past semester) Craig Keener, whose The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament has sold more than half a million copies.

I am, of course, not enough of a biblical expert to write a commentary, but I figure that if I start now, by the time I'm 80 or 90 and know enough to write a commentary (although does anyone ever know enough?)

You might be interested in this online commentary «Putting God on Trial: The Biblical Book of Job» (http://www.bookofjob.org) as supplementary or background material for your study of the Book of Job.

(In fact, when I was about 9 or 10, I dreamt of compiling a commentary on the Bible called «The World Commentary» which was written by leading biblical scholars from around commentary on the Bible called «The World Commentary» which was written by leading biblical scholars from around Commentary» which was written by leading biblical scholars from around the world.

New texts on systematic theologies, along with new dictionaries, encyclopedias and biblical commentaries, are significant signs of efforts at retrieving the faith and «getting it all together.»

Even after the compilation of the Talmud in the first centuries CE, there have been continuous commentaries by Biblical scholars from then to the present, including some as widely regarded and respected as Rashi.

Our discussion was also informed by the superb biblical scholarship of Father Joseph Fitzmyer, whose recent Commentary on Romans illuminates the Pauline meaning of justification:

During my yearlong experiment, I interviewed a variety of women practicing biblical womanhood in different ways — an Orthodox Jew, an Amish housewife, even a polygamist family - and I combed through every commentary I could find, reexamining the stories of biblical women such as Deborah, Ruth, Hagar, Tamar, Mary Magdalene, Priscilla and Junia.

Nearly every commentary I consulted, including those most lauded among biblical scholars, identifies Esther as a diaspora story, composed by an unknown author in the 4th of 5th century BC.

Calvin further labored to set forth the clear and genuine meaning of scripture in his biblical commentaries.

For example, for many years most biblical commentaries have pointed out that a writer called «Q» is considered the source of the many similar sayings in both Matthew and Luke, and «Matthew» and Luke» both incorporated Q's material in their testaments.

Even the biblical work of Aquinas on Romans and Job has elicited the interest of Protestant historians, who have found his commentaries to be sources of wisdom and insight into the biblical drama of redemption.

The modern genre of historical - critical commentary has become ossified, and the vast majority read like summaries of recent scholarship rather than fresh engagements with the biblical text.

The Navarre Bible, that wonderful commentary which has done so much to seed the wasteland of contemporary Biblical scholarship, refers in connection with the passage I quoted from Matthew (9:36) to words of St Margaret Mary Alacoque: «This Divine Heart is a great abyss which holds all good, and he commands that all his poor people should pour their needs into it.

No glossaries, commentaries, daily devotions, prayer list, or any of the plethora of functions and resources found on most basic Biblical software.

Thus the commentary models one version of biblical exposition, that which organizes the exposition around the lessons of the text.

The first of three commentaries to be completed in 1994 is Gordon Wenham's, Genesis 16 - 50 (Word Biblical Commentary Series, Waco: Word, 517 pp., $ 27.99) a companion to his 1987 work on Gen 1 - 15.

The survey of commentaries and expository guides gives some indication of the diversity of method at work in biblical studies today.

I am working on a book that shows by means of medieval rabbinical commentary, Hebrew semantics, and biblical genre studies, that Genesis 1 is scientifcally accurate and the first part of a semitic chiasm.

But it was also the case that, as Alter moved from making brilliant observations about a small selection of texts to writing large commentaries on entire biblical books, the weaknesses of his scholarship became more visible.

All Year: The Bible (There are many translations available at biblegateway.com)- Anchor Bible Commentary Series - The Women's Bible Commentary, Edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe - Living Judaism: The Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Wayne D. Dosick - Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament, Edited by Carol Meyers, Toni Cravien, and Ross Shepard Kraemer - Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem - Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy, Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and Gordon D. Fee - Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick - God's Word to Women by Katharine C. Bushnell - Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis - «On The Dignity and Vocation of Women» by Pope John Paul II - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

I also decided that I would include alongside my «biblical» books extensive commentary about each, tracking their «afterlives» over the course of U.S. history.

It is ironic that the Reformation principle of sola scriptura, much misunderstood, has led to the neglect among Protestants of older biblical commentaries, even those of the reformers themselves.

The vivid imagination and the sharp observation of men and nature that marked his mind; his acquaintance with common speech and his joy in the use of proverbs; indeed, his capacity to express in creative speaking with a skill that only a poet and genius possesses the whole range of human emotions from awe in the presence of the numinous to the feelings of the body — all are reflected in his sermons (as also in the commentaries, his work of the lecture room), not consistently, of course, and not every time, yet most impressively in the Church Postil Sermons, one of the products of his exile on Wartburg Castle, written in order to furnish to the preachers of the Reformation examples of Biblical preaching.

A feature - length commentary featuring director Ortega, producer Mike Finnell, lead choreographer Peggy Holmes, and writers Bob Tzudiker and Noni White starts in the pits with exhausting recountings of where the kid cast members have wound up since the «triumph» of Newsies (it's like a biblical genealogy)... and continues in the pits with never - interesting back - patting and masturbatory aggrandizement.

According to the three historians on the DVD's excellent commentary track, the film did enjoy strong box office returns and was anything but a creative failure, but Castile is symbolic of the epic productions studios couldn't indulge in as often, until TV forced a return to bug budget epics during the fifties, in the form of pseudo-moral Biblical sagas in CinemaScope and stereophonic sound.

Four deleted scenes featuring an option of a joint commentary by Lussier and Soisson are likewise useless in context, but do further the idea that the filmmakers really believed that they were involved in something of value not only to vampire lore, but to biblical scholarship as well.

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Readers new to Coetzee may find this to be somewhat more accessible than some of his other novels, but with its curious tapestry of biblical themes, modern social commentary and ambivalent humanism, TheChildhoodofJesus may actually be one of his most enigmatic.